Process of manufacturing mineral waters.



J. BIENZ.

PBOOBSS OF MANUFACTURING MINERAL WATERS.

APPLICATION FILED D130. 2a, 1910.

1,021,087. Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

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J. BIENZ.

PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING MINERAL WATERS.

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J'OHANN BIENZ, 0F IBERNE, SWITZERLAND.

PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING MINERAL WATERS.

Application filed December 28, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHANN BIENZ, a citizen of the Swiss Confederacy, and residing at Berne, Switzerland, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Process of Manufacturing Mineral TVaters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a process of manufacturing mineral waters. According to my invention water, preferably impregnated with carbonic acid, is introduced in such manner into the bottles for keeping it that it must pass a device containing a tabletcomposed of a mineral salt or a mixture of mineral salts which is broken by the operation of members provided on the device and is then dissolved by the water, so that mineral water passes into the bottles.

In order that my invention be better understood, I have shown in the accompanying drawing two different forms of an apparatus for carrying out the new process.

Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, showing one form of apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a like view showing another form of apparatus.

In Fig. 1, the numeral 1 designates a sheetmetal basket or casing, which can be opened at the front, containing a siphon bottle 2 of well known construction. The casing 1 is provided with apertures, through which the amount of water in the bottle can be observed, and also serves for protecting the persons filling the bottle against injuries should the bottle break. A bar 3, whose top bent end is formed with an eye 4, is attached to the side of the casing.

The apparatus which particularly serves for carrying out my process is constructed as follows :A sleeve-like member 5 having its underside open along its entire length surrounds the discharge pipe 13, and its top side has two apertures, between which is arranged a plate 6 for stitfening the sleeve. A part of the cap 23 passes through the top aperture in the top side of the sleeve. Integral with or affixed to the top end of the member 5 is a ring 7, having an internal screw thread, in which a screw-threaded spindle 9 carrying a hand-wheel 8 can be moved axially. The sleeve 5 terminates below in a right-hand and a left-hand lug. To these two lugs is soldered a mouthpiece 10 having an axial bore 11 opening into a chamber 12 in the enlarged, recessed top end of the mouthpiece which is screwed into the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

Serial No. 599,641.

eye 4 of the bar 3. A bushing 14, which extends into the chamber 12 and fits tight against the wall thereof, is pushed over the free end of the discharge pipe 13 mounted on the bottle 2, and is located between the right-hand and left-hand lugs of the sleevelike member 5, to whose .ends the mouthpiece 10 is soldered. In the bottom end of the bushing 14: is screwed a conical nozzle 15, whose one end projects somewhat beyond the edge of the bushing, whereas between the other end of the nozzle and the mouth of the discharge pipe 13 a packing ring 17 is arranged. A small tube 16, whose one end passes through the packing ring 17 and whose other end is located over the duct 18 coaxial with it, is inserted axially in the nozzle. A port 19 passing through the end of the nozzle and located at right angles both to the duct 18 and to the tube 16 is connected with both of these. Owing to the conical face of the nozzle and the removal of material from the inner edge of the bushing a channel 20 leading around the entire nozzle is formed. The tablet 21 is in the lowest part of the chamber 12 in the mouthpiece 10, and a packing ring 12 is arranged on the face of the shoulder in the chamber 12 located at about the same height as the top of the tablet. The tablet 21 is inserted from above into the mouthpiece 10 before the bottle 2 is put into the basket 1.

On the head 22 of the bottle is placed a cap 23 which serves as abutment for the screw 9 and has two arms 24:, between which a disk 25 having a peripheral groove is journaled eccentrically, the free end of the lever 26 mounted on the bottle being located in said groove. Attached to the disk 25 is a chain 27, whose last link is in engagement with a hook 28 attached to the casing 1. This chain is of such length that it can be hooked onto a hook 28 provided on the casing 1 only after the lever 26 has been depressed by means of the disk 25.

The above described apparatus operates as follows :Assun1ing that all the parts of the apparatus are in the position shown in the drawing and that a tablet has been inserted into the mouthpiece 10 after lifting the bushing 14, the screw 9 is then tightened, whereby the top end of the bar 3 is subjected to a tension. This is an iron bar, and as all the other parts of the apparatus consist of metal and are not particularly thick, both the bar and the casing yield, so that the tablet is pressed against the end of the nozzle 15 and broken to pieces. The screw 9 is screwed so tight that the bushing 14 is pressed against the packing ring 12 in the chamber 12. Water impregnated with carbonic acid is then supplied through a tube to the mouthpiece 10, whereupon the lever 26 is depressed by means of the disk 25 and the chain 27 attached to the hook 28, so that the bottle remains open during the filling operation. The tablet 21 is generally completely dissolved in the inflowing water, and in any event still undissolved large particles are prevented due the narrowness of the ducts 18 and port 19 from being carried away by the water, so that only small particles can be carried away by the water before they have become dissolved and these will subsequently be readily dissolved in the bottle. After the bottle has been filled, the screw 9 is turned back away from the cap 23, the member 5 is swung away from the head of the bottle and the latter removed from the casing 1. The mouthpiece 10 may then be charged with a new tablet.

The form of my apparatus represented in Fig. 2 is for filling bottles whose necks are provided at their upper ends with an internal screw-thread and which are closed with an ordinary glass screw stopper. To this end, my apparatus comprises a screwthreaded stopper 29 adapted to be screwed into the neck of the bottle. The stopper is screwed so far into a bushing 30 that it abuts against a partition 33 dividing the interior of the bushing into two parts. At 4 the top side of this partition an annular flange 34 is left standing adapted to receive the tablet. A second stopper 36 provided with a grip 39 is screwed into the bushing 30, a packing ring 36 being provided between the top edge of the latter and the stopper 36. The stopper 29 is provided with an axial bore 31, from whose top end two narrow ducts 32 branch 0E which, like the bore 31, are connected with corresponding ports 33 in the partition 33 opening into the chamber surrounded by the flange 34. The stopper 16 has a bore 37 in alinement with the bore 31, terminating at one end in the annular chamber 35, at the other end in a duct 38 at right angles to the bore 37 and traversing the entire stopper 36. Screwed laterally to the stopper 36 is a socket 40, in which is located a coil spring 43 which with one end abuts against a disk 42 of elastic material, 0. 9. leather, serving as a valve and normally closing one end of the duct 38, and with its other end against a nut 44- in the socket, which is closed by a cap 45. For using this form of my apparatus the stopper 29 connected with the bushing 30 is screwed into the bottle, whereupon a tablet is placed within the flange 34, and then the stopper 36 is screwed so far into the bushing 30 that the tablet is brokenito pieces and the packing ring 36* pressed firmly between the bushing and the stopper. The annular recess 35 not only makes room for the broken tablet, but also affords sufficient surface to the water flowing through the bore 37 for dissolving and washing away the broken tablet. nated with carbonic acid is then introduced through the duct 38. The valve 42 provided in the socket 40 is for compensating the pressure of the water or carbonic acid, in order that when the pressure becomes too great no solid particles of the tablet will be forced through the ports in the partition 33 and stop up the same.

40 is a narrow outlet, provided in the wall of the casing 40 for the escapeof carbonic acid gas, which may enter the casing 40 past the valve 42.

I claim The process of manufacturing mineral water, which consists in first disintegrating a tablet, composed of one or more mineral salts, outside of the receptacle adapted to hold the mineral water, and then forcing water, containing preferably carbonic acid gas, past the disintegrated tablet, so as to dissolve the same before the mineral water thereby produced enters the receptacle.

J OHANN BIENZ.

itnesses FRIEDRICH NORSOGOLI, FRIEDRICH MANING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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